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The Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, is one of the world’s most crucial oil and gas transit chokepoints, carrying roughly a quarter of the global seaborne oil trade.

“The current FIFA leadership has not only lost UEFA’s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family,” UEFA said in a statement responding to FIFA’s announcement.

The drug busts have intensified scrutiny of Liberia’s narcotics problem, with social media users, political commentators and local media calling for greater accountability from public officials and swift progress in the investigation.

BRUSSELS — More than 48,300 of the approximately 50,000 people who entered the Spanish exclave of Ceuta from Morocco have returned, a Spanish government official told POLITICO. “Most of the people that came yesterday are now back in Morocco,” said the official, who was granted anonymity to speak freely, adding that the situation was “on…

Of 206 fires recorded since Wednesday, 202 had been brought under control by Friday, but some remained active across western and southern coasts, with high temperatures and strong winds forecast to persist across 10 provinces.

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Morocco’s press framed Ceuta as a sovereignty question, Algerian media accused Rabat of “weaponising” migration, and Tunisian social media responded with dark humour, as the region’s own economic and political crises remained in the background.

Cosplayers in elaborate costumes gather at ChinaJoy in Shanghai, where gaming fans meet characters inspired by popular video games.

resident Donald Trump and his aides rarely go easy on their perceived enemies. But their attacks on the International Criminal Court — describing it as, among other things, filled with “lunatics” and pledging to destroy it — are hyperbolic enough that you have to wonder: Are they afraid the court will prosecute them? That’s the conclusion many former…

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